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Two major vendors have announced expansions of their NAS products, while a third has announced a new Serial ATA RAID product focusing on speed and flexibility. And Dot Hill, a SAN and Fibre Channel vendor, has announced that its SANnet II now works with Veritas products for Linux.

Faster Processors, Greater Scalability for Snap Server 4500

Adaptec Inc. of Milpitas, Calif., has upgraded its Snap Server 4500, an iSCSI-enabled IP SAN RAID solution, with a faster processor and greater capacity.

The Snap Server 4500, which offers on-the-fly scalability and provisioning and cross-platform file sharing, generally is used for IP SAN configurations, departmental storage, nearline storage, disk-to-disk backup and remote office uses, according to Mark Pollard, the companys vice president of marketing.

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In addition to offering a 3.0GHz Pentium processor, the Snap Server is now available in a 1.6TB configuration. By adding up to three Snap Disk 30 expansion arrays, organizations can reach a total capacity of 13.6TB.

With up to four "hot-plug" memory boards, the 9715 also provides dual integrated Intel Gigabit Ethernet network interface cards, 10 hot-swap drive bays, and up to 3TB of internal storage. It starts at $3,999.

Gateway also introduced the 9315 Storage Server, built on the companys existing Gateway 9315 server, and the 9415 Storage Server, based on Gateways 9415 server.

Both offer new NAS (network-attached storage) features like print server, backup appliance and the ability to attach external storage, said Tim Diefenthaler, senior director of server product marketing. The 9315 Storage Server, with 800MHz FSB (frontside bus), has three internal SATA hard drives with support for RAID 5, PCI0X and PCIe.

The 9415 Storage Server also offers 800MHz FSB and integrates three hot-swap SCSI drive bays with RAID 5 capability and dual-redundant, hot-swap power supplies in a 1.75-inch chassis.

The 9415 Storage Server also offers up to 900GB of raw internal storage. The 9315 Storage Server costs $2,197, while the 9415 Storage server costs $2,098.

The controllers also offer additional data protection technology including PerfectRAID for error handling and recovery, as well as a series of RAID array features, including multiple logical drive support, online capacity expansion and RAID level migration.

The SuperTrak EX8350, an eight-port SATA RAID controller with 3.0 GB per second per port, provides a PCI-Express 4x Host Bus Interface up to 1GB per second, an open-source Linux driver architecture, SATA port multiplier support and multiple LUN (logical unit number) support.

The controller, based on an Intel IOP333 I/O processor with Intel Xscale technology, also offers support for RAID 6.

All three controllers provide SATA II compatibility, NCQ (Native Command Queuing), staggered spin-up, drive hot swap and disk activity LED headers support. They will be available in late June.

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